Terrorism monitors say far-right groups are targeting children’s gaming sites. Far-right extremists have used children’s gaming platforms to recreate the Christchurch atrocity in New Zealand in which 51 people were killed. A map of one of the mosques targeted in Christchurch was placed on Minecraft, terrorism researchers revealed. The map, which had been online for two months, received hundreds of views and a link had been posted on a white supremacist image board on the dark web. In another instance, a video which included the same music that was used in the live-streamed mosque attack was created in the online Roblox game and shared. The Christchurch attack saw white supremacist Brenton Tarrant kill 51 people at two mosques in March 2019. He opened fire on worshippers inside the Al Noor mosque, broadcasting the attack on Facebook Live via a head camera he was wearing. Tarrant then drove to the Linwood Islamic Centre where he shot people outside and then shot at the windows. The Counter Extremism Project, which monitors extremist activity online, said: “CEP researchers identified a video posted on Streamable consisting of a recreation of the Christchurch terrorist attack video in the online video game Roblox, as well as a map of one of the mosques targeted in the attack in the game Minecraft, which was then shared on an image board that promotes violent white supremacism.”
via thenationalnews: Extremists use Minecraft and Roblox to recreate Christchurch attack